Is your home Cat proof?  

Oh my gosh, I hope your babies are ok.

Animals are as bad as babies about eating just about anything they can get into their mouths. But the back of your tablecloth...wow.

I'm not sure you could EVER truly cat proof your home. For instance, I have (lets just say a few) cats. It's not uncommon to see them come into a room and you hear wrapping, like plastic. Look over and for some reason they love to chew on plastic. They COULD definitely eat it and end up with a blockage. They find earrings and knock them down and chase them. I'm sure they could easily end up choking on a small one. Face it, they're little punks! lol They love to get into anything they can!

You can never be too careful with pets I know. It's just a real good thing you called the vet back and talked with someone else. I hope the other vet got chewed out for letting the kitten go home like that, if not more then that. You never know what pets will pick up, play with or what could cause them problems. Our one cat, Tabby, has allergies horribly but when he was younger he had an Upper Respitory Infection. It was so bad he wasn't eating or drinking. We ended up taking him to the Emergency Room Vet and then again a few days later to the normal one. He did get better but he had us scared for awhile.

I've seen cats grab things that they shouldn't from small rubber bands up to dollar bills. It wouldn't be hard for them to get sick from something like this. It does help when one really knows their pet and can tell if something isn't right.

I had a friend who tok in two stray cats that would literally eat anything. The female loved to lick and chew fabrics and leather (like shoes) and even would lick the dog (golden retriever) so much that she would get huge hairballs that required vet treatment. The boy cat was more into anything in string form, shoe laces, ribbon, electrical cords... so she really had a hard time keeping them out of stuff, and racked up big vet bills in the process.
Some cats are just like that for some reason, and it's increadibly hard to get them to stop. Hope that your two have learned their lessons and you don't have any more emergencies!
Good Luck.

Man it must have been some ordeal for you guys. But I hope the 2 cats are fine now. I know what you mean by cat proofing the house for them. They will just try to eat anything from plastic ropes to leaves from our trees. I think one of them even chew a hole on my socks. I had to pull out anything I find in their mouth and sometime the plastic rope was already somewhere in the stomach when I saw the end of the rope by the mouth. It smell terrible, I almost puke.

wow!! I have an indoor cat but she's never eaten any of our furnitute, weird. My outside cat ate something one time (a rodent i think) and ended up having a horrible sickness, got vertigo, had a stroke, it just progressed. We thought she was going to die, but she actually made it. 13 years later, she's still alive.

Thank god that you were awake enough to call the vet back and have the cat checked again.

But you are right they get into the darndest things those cats. And even things that you wouldn't think tasted very good they will eat.

for now, when you go out you should maybe lock your cats in the bathroom with their food, water, and litter boxes. possibly separate bathrooms. leave some toys in there too. then, when you're home, when you see them misbehaving, spray them with just a light mist of water, and they will quickly learn what not to do. you also might want to consider having them declawed, or getting little plastic covers for their claws so they can't scratch up everything.

Thanks so much for this post. I had not even thought about the cotton on the back of the tablecloth, and my cat loves to play with the tablecloth.

Watch out for wool. Sometimes cats, and especially Siamese cats, really like to eat wool. So if you have wool socks, or a wool scarf, or a wool sweater, anything made from 100% wool, keep it out of the cat's reach.